The Free Methodist Church in Canada

There were three consecutive stories about church planter and FM ministerial candidate Bruce Zantingh in Simcoe news last week.  Bruce has renovated the Historic Melbourne Hotel in order to provide affordable housing to the community.  While he hopes to accommodate artists and entrepreneurs, several units have specifically been set aside

In about half an hour, I’m going to go be a Matron of Honour for an impromptu wedding held in my husband’s office at the church.  The bride is a friend and John-Mark is officiating the wedding.  I just found out about an hour ago that this was going to

Here’s a great article about parishioner and board member at Edmonton Free Methodist Church, Nathan Andrews. Ghanaian is a Trudeau Foundation scholar, posted on Sharenews.com, “Canada’s largest ethnic newspaper.” Photo of Nathan Andrews, Trudeau Scholar, from sharenews.com Of course I have a keen interest in Ghanaian news because of our

My days are long and so lonesome. My nights are cold and sleepless…. I’m starting to give up on everything… In all my years of relationships, abusiveness is all I’ve really known… Tell me please what do I do? What do I do to have true love? How does one

I receive a daily Google Alert for any updates posted on the internet relating to the term “Free Methodist.”  Up till now it has just been a whole lot of notices for potluck dinners.  So I was excited to see this story online, of Alannah and Victoria Day, who worship

I have been absent from my post here in the blogosphere because I was on a 10-day trip to Ghana, West Africa.  This wasn’t a mission trip, although I did attend to some “mission business” (an oxymoron?) while there, carrying out some administrative tasks on behalf of the partnership Barrie

Jared Siebert, Director of Church Development, is hosting with Church Planting Canada a Church Planting Summit which begins today. Jared chats about the Summit as well as life in Saskatoon in this week’s video blog.  

Friday, April 27 and Saturday, April 28The Board of Administration (BOA) will be meeting Friday and Saturday at the Ministry Centre in Mississauga. Please remember them in your prayers.    

The FreeWay, a church plant in Oshawa, has the slogan, “a safe place for the journey.” The FreeWay literally knows what it means to journey, as the church has made the recent move to rent space at Kedron Public School. This also means transporting the church equipment weekly, tearing down

Nudge: v. to prod (someone) lightly, typically with one’s elbow; to urge into action (Miriam-Webster Dictionary) In the vernacular of Sault Ste. Marie Free Methodist Church, the prodding comes from the Holy Spirit. Sometimes it’s not done so “lightly.” “There are two things in my ministry career I’m not good